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Religions MA

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Advanced Vedic Sanskrit (15 PSR C058)
Avestan Language (15 PSR C033)
Buddhism: history and doctrines (15 PSR C005)
Buddhism in Tibet (15 PSR H008)
Buddhism: Theravadin Traditions (15 PSRH 003)
The Buddhism of South East Asia (15 PSR C040)
Buddhist Conquest of Central Asia (15 PSR H009)
Buddhist legends: readings in Avadana literature (15 PSR H040)
Buddhist Rituals (15 PSR H012)
Central concepts and tenets of Indian Buddhism (15 PSR H010)
Chinese Buddhism in the Pre-Modern Period (15 PSR C160)
Chinese religious texts: a reading seminar (15 PSR H038)
Christianity and social change in sub-Saharan Africa (15 PSR C157)
Classical and contemporary perspectives on Zoroastrianism (15 PSR C016)
Conflict in compliance: about lives of Buddhist monks in ancient India (15PSRH039)
Eastern Christian texts in translation (15 PSR C014)
Eastern Christian texts on martyrs and monks (15 PSR C054)
Eastern Christianity (15 PSR C013)
Eastern and Orthodox Christianity (15 PSRC 055)
Esoteric Buddhism in India and Tibet (15 PSR H007)
Features of Buddhist Monasticism (15 PSR H014)
Gender, postcolonialism and the study of religions (15 PSR C037)
Gender theory and the study of Asia and Africa (15 PSR C065)
Heritage and holy history in China (15 PSR C001)
Historical and contemporary perspectives of Hinduism (15 PSR C006)
Historical Developments of Indian Buddhism (15 PSR H013)
History and Doctrines of Indian Buddhism (15 PSR C059)
History of Buddhism in India (15 PSR H013)
History of religion in Imperial China (15 PSR C051)
Indian Mahayana Buddhism (15 PSRH 005)
Jainism: history, doctrine and the contemporary world (15 PSR C024)
Jain scripture and community (15 PSR C062)
Judaism and early Christianity: common grounds and the parting of ways (15 PSR C069)
Judaism in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
Muslim Britain: perspectives and realities (15 PSR C158)
Orthodoxy and gender in Indian traditions (15 PSR C002)
Pahlavi Language (15 PSR C034)
Pali Intermediate Level (15 PSR C053)
Religious practice in Japan: texts, rituals and believers (15 PEA C014)
Religious and philosophical ideas of ancient and early medieval India (15 PSR C008)
Samples of Buddhist literature in Sanskrit and Tibetan (15 PSR C067)
Selected texts from Mahayana Sutra literature(15 PSR H006)
Studies in Buddhist literature in Pali (15 PSR C038)
Taoism and the religions of China (15 PSR C161)
Text and context in classical Hinduism (15 PSR C007)
Text and context in Zoroastrianism (15 PSR C036)
Themes in the study of Christianity/ Comparing Christianities (15 PSR C012)
Theory and method in the study of religion (15 PSR C010)
Tibetan Buddhist Texts from Central Asia (15 PSR H004)
The Tibetan historical and biographical tradition (15 PSR C032)
Vedic Interpretations (15 PSR C050)
Zoroastrianism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (15 PSR C052)